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Cake day: August 13th, 2025

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  • Hyprland has several practical features that Sway does not have. I have used both extensively and I stayed at Hyprland because of the following:

    • DynamicBSP layout
    • Moving windows without changing layout structure is easy
    • Special workspaces(scratch pads)
      • They can be toggled
      • One can launch apps when opened empty
      • They can automatically close when the last window closes.

    Things Sway has that Hyprland does not:

    • Closing all windows contained in workspace
    • Moving all windows from one workspace to another

    I have thought coming back to Sway because of the performance and because of Hyprland’s the silly default wallpapers and splash screens, but those features hold me back.














  • Open Source has nothing to do whether data involved in the program/service is available, it refers to the source code. This source code is the recipe of the program, it is written in a programming language. When a project is open source people who make modifications to that code must publish the modifications with the same licence(generally speaking), thus ensuring a mutual knowledge exchange.

    As for the data in Lemmy, yes you can see who upvoted posts and comments but it is not available in the interface. There is a website called Lemvotes or something that does this. To be clear, a project can be open source and not expose data of their users, for example the Matrix protocol.